away with all doubt!

whenever you take your eyes off Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith, doubt starts to creep into your consciousness and take over your thoughts. doubt over your salvation. doubt over your future. even doubt over what you have in front of you.

stop doubting and believe

"Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"

But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."

A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."

Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."" - John 20:24-29 (NIV)

believe and not doubt

"If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does." - James 1:5-8 (NIV)

do not lose heart

"We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed." - 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NIV)

"Therefore we do not lose heart... So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV)

"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful." - Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." - Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)

it's easy to walk by sight, but the righteous will live by faith. if you're nothing without some (earthly) thing, you're nothing even with it. to take this a step further, if you won't serve the Lord without some (earthly) thing, you won't serve the Lord even with it.

before you're able to hold on to something, you must be able to let go of everything. are you able to let go of everything?